Titles starting with I from Glenn Books

Philadelphia, New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1940. Spine shows slight fading. Old tape removal from half-title page. SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the authoress on verso of half-title. A clean copy, illustrated throughout.376pp.. First Edition, Third Impression. Zebra-design Cloth.. Minor Corner Wear./No Jacket. Quarto. ... more information

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. #370/1500 signed by the artist. Introduction by Irma Jaffe. Printed at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a lithograph tipped-in at the conclusion of the text. This play was first published in 1946. (See Newman and Wiche 525). 153pp.. Limited Edition. Gray Paper-covered Boards. Fine./Lightly Worn Slipcase. Tall Octavo. ... more information

London: William Pickering, 1830. Marbled boards and matching endpapers. Rebacked with old spine laid down. Corners repaired. Hinged strengthened. Covers rubbed. Evidence of bookplate removal from front pastedown. Ninety woodcuts depicting events from the old testament, after Holbein, by John and Mary Byfield. Text in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish. Fine typography, printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press. . First Chiswick Edition. 1/2 Contemporary Calf. General Moderate Wear. Octavo. ... more information

A leaf from a 15th century Book of Hours. Printed on vellum with 15 line of Latin text on front and 14 lines on the reverse. The script is in a brown ink, wide margins. Capital letters and decorations in gilt with blue and red backgrounds. Tape offsetting at bottom 1/4". A lovely, delicate example of the art of illuminating a manuscript. . 160mm x 110mm. ... more information

A leaf from an Indian illuminated manuscript, elaborately-illustrated with gilt, blue and red floral border. Probably early 19th century in the Mughal style. The illustration shows Lord Krishna on a gilt throne with a kneeling worshipper to the right with a seated deity surrounded by goats in a slightly smaller lower panel. Reverse is Sanskrit text with gilt, blue, and red linear borders. Right edge shows about 1/4" of old conservation paper repair, left edge also re-inforced on the reverse. The illust... more information

(Ca. 15th C.). Single column, 15 lines of text front and back of vellum leaf. Latin text in attractive gothic hand. Several one-line burnished gold initials on fuchsia and blue grounds with white tracery. Line fillers in same colors and gold. Panel borders with blossoms and ivy leaves on hairline stems. Hint of marginal staining. The leaf is part of a book of daily prayers for specific hours of the day and used by nobles of the 15th century. Two leaves .. 5 1/2" x 7". ... more information

From a fifteenth-century Flemish Book of Hours. Written on vellum, 23 lines of Latin text, the book was used by nobles for daily prayers for specific hours of the day. Illuminated in raised gold leaf and in red and blue with leaves and vines. Initial letters elaborately gilt, on grounds of red and blue with white highlights. Minor browning of edsges. Both sides are illuminated. A fine example of the illuminating art.. 150mm x 210mm. ... more information

Boston, Dover, N.H.: D. Lothrop and Company, G.T. Day and Company Circa 1880. Red cloth spine, faded and frayed at foot. Vignettes of children with toys and young fellow pulling his sister in a wagon on front cover. Rear cover in orange showing children a t a horse stable. The primer begins with the alphabet, followed by six pages of illustrations with captions, four to a page, then single page short sentences under illustrations, and finally longer passages with illustrations. Paper is lightly soiled and f... more information

Chicago: Richard S. Peale, 1876. Gilt vignette front cover. Rebacked with original spine laid-down. Some rippling of cloth on rear panel. Damp-stain to several preliminary pages and top of free-edge, does not carry into the text pages. Full-page illustrations of famous Iowans through the volume. 48 chapters with material on early history, local Indian tribes, explorationgovernment and courts, boundary difficulties, crime, various governors and their administrations, Iowa in the Civil War, schools. Last two... more information

London: Smith, Elder and Company, 1845. Covers blind-stamped. Spine designs and lettering in gilt. Spine faded but gilt remains bright. Spine extremities frayed, moreso at top with some loss of cloth. Front hinge weakening but intact. Rear hinge repaired. Twenty-seven full-page colour plates at the end, drawn and coloured from nature by the author. Each plate is protected by a tissue-guard. All plates are present and in fine condition, one or two peripheral spots only. The binging shows definite wear, but i... more information

West Chester,l PA: Aralia Press, 1977. Color frontispiece of "Stubborness" by N.C. Wyeth. #136/750 numbered copies.12pp.. First Edition. Yellow Wrappers, Stapled Bindi. Minor Soiling. Thin Octavo. ... more information

Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1877. Translated from the Latin by W. Benham, B.D., Vicar of Margate. Contemporary binding. Covers have the title and passages of text lettered in gilt around the border between two blind fillets, enclosing a lattice design of blind fillets with gilt roundels containing the Chi Rho symbol at each intersection. In the center of the front cover is the sacred monogram "ihs" and on the rear cover the Chi Rho symbol. The spine is in six panels with blind compartments, lette... more information

Topeka, Kansas, 1934. Small portrait of Mr. Crane as frontispiece. A memorial for the famed Topekan, includes a foreward, the funeral service, the memorial service of the Shawnee County Barr Association, letters and motions, and a short biographical essay at the conclusion. Alfred Crane was a prominent Topeka attorney from 1918 until his death in 1934. 49pp.. First Edition. Grey Wrappers. Minor Wear and Soiling. Octavo. ... more information

Portland, Maine: Thomas Bird Mosher ., 1920. Lettered in red. Limited to 950 copies printed on Kisogawa hand-made paper. In worn, but intact slipcase. Signed on front free endpaper, dated Christmas1937, by Edna Worthley Underwood. Ms. Underwood was a translator of books and an author. A number of her works were published by Thomas Mosher. She lived for many years in Arkansas City, Kansas. . Limited Edition. Paper-covered Boards.. Essentially No Wear.. Thin Duodecimo. ... more information

Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, 2000. "How to win in sport and life through mental training". 242pp.. Later Edition.. Color Illustrated Wrappers.. Fine./No Jacket.. Octavo. ... more information

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978. The author is certain that Butch Cassidy (born Robert LeRoy Parker) did not die in the 1908 shootout with Bolivian police, but returned to a quiet life in Spokane, Washington where he died peacefully in 1937. He traces threads of evidence throughout the book. Illustrated throughout with photographic reproductions, maps. Quite an interesting theory AND rather convincing. 294pp.. Second Printing. Black Cloth. Fine./Fine.. Octavo. ... more information

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924. Cloth-backed boards. Contains three papers,"ON THE PLANNING OF PRINTING","STYLE IN THE USE OF TYPE", and "SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF TYPOGRAPHY". Light foxing to early pages. Tipped-in on rear pastedown is an invitation to a private viewing of the works of Updike at the Merrymount Press in 1928 along with a check list of his works. Book-plate from the library of Ned Thompson. 70pp.. First Edition. Marbled Boards.. Very Minor Wear./No Jacket. T... more information

London Cassell (1958).. Near fine in worn dust jacket with top 3/4" of spine missing. A must for any collector of Sherlockiana, illustrated with photographs and sketches. 1st edition.. ... more information

London, Glasgow, and Dublin: Blackie and Son, 1901. Illustrated by Charles M. Sheldon. Several quires are slightly loosened with uneven contour of the fore-edge. 384pp. + 32-page Blackie catalogue.. First English Editiion. Green Pictorial Cloth.. Light Edge Wear/No Jacket. Octavo. ... more information

West Newbury, MA: Frontier Press, 1971. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Small defect in the paper on copyright page. . First Edition.. Red and Gold Wrappers.. Minor Edge Wear. Square Octavo. ... more information